Alysia Cruz
Alysia Cruz is the WUSF Stephen Noble news intern for the fall 2019 semester. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at the University of South Florida in Communication and is now enrolled at USF St. Petersburg, pursuing her Master’s in Digital Journalism & Design concentrating on food writing.
In the years since graduating from USF, Alysia has worked as a theatre and journalism teacher, running The Minotaur yearbook program and starting The Minotaur online newspaper at Bloomingdale High School in Valrico, FL. She also spent time working in TV production as a production coordinator and live theater as a stage manager.
Alysia hopes to become a food and travel journalist in the future, expanding reporting on these subjects within public media.
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NOTE: Sunday's event has been canceled due to the storm in the Gulf of Mexico.Two events will transform the waterfront of downtown St. Petersburg into a… -
Public health officials confirmed the 18th case of dengue fever in Hillsborough County this year.But this case is different- while the first 17 were… -
Five months after the fatal stabbing of a bus driver by a passenger, the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) has begun installing safety… -
The state's Education Practices Commission on Tuesday unanimously rejected a settlement agreement between the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) and… -
Minority women believe it’s their time to be role models in the male-dominated STEM field and a $2.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation is… -
From a distance, the bright fluorescent figures under the Boot Ranch overpass in Palm Harbor may look like another wall covered in graffiti; but, take a… -
In the weeks since Hurricane Dorian, cities in the Bahamas are now housing thousands of people displaced by the devastation.This past weekend, four USF… -
Video gamers and national eSports industry leaders gathered in Tampa Wednesday to talk about gaming as a culture and as a business, across the country and… -
Free Museum Day is returning to Tampa Bay on Saturday. Hosted by Smithsonian Magazine, museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free… -
Student homelessness in Florida has almost tripled in the last decade to about 96,000 in the 2017-18 school year.Those experiencing homelessness score…
